Seriously, how dare Trump stand in the way of the climate cult forcing the peasants into EVs!
Never mind Trump’s new rhetoric — he’s still gunning for EVs
Donald Trump’s embrace of electric vehicles since picking up Elon Musk’s endorsement isn’t reassuring the EV industry — and likely won’t stop Trump and other Republicans from trying to throttle President Joe Biden’s push for non-gasoline-powered cars and trucks.
Trump’s recent change in tone reflects a softening in rhetoric about EVs on the campaign trail, but is much in line with his positive comments about the vehicles during his presidency and his 2020 reelection bid. Republicans and EV industry officials say they would still expect Trump to gut Biden’s efforts to get more electric vehicles on U.S. roads, and to repeal tax incentives that the GOP nominee alleges benefit China.
The uncertainty about Trump’s potential electric vehicle policies goes to the heart of one of the biggest implications of his third bid for the White House: How much of Biden’s $1.6 trillion climate, energy and infrastructure agenda would he seek to reverse — including programs that stand to benefit GOP-friendly states and businesses.
After more than a year of denigrating Biden’s EV policies as “lunacy” and calling for electric car supporters to “ROT IN HELL,” Trump told a rally in Atlanta this month that he’s for “a very small slice” of cars being electric.
Except, Trump has never been against EVs, he’s been against government forcing citizens into EVs. You can argue that it’s not really a mandate, but, the terms of the law and rules would force the end of most fossil fueled vehicles, including hybrids. And nowhere in this article do they provide any evidence that Trump is going to actually come after EVs
Mike Murphy, a longtime GOP strategist who founded the EV Politics Project to boost Republican support for EV adoption, said Trump’s recent comments indicate his opinion on EVs may be malleable — and Musk may be the one person who can change his mind.
“Trump is not a hopeless cause for EVs,” Murphy said. “If Trump has proven one thing, it’s that he’s flexible — and Elon could be a force for good with Trump on EVs.”
It would be interesting if Trump would actually build out the charging infrastructure that the Biden-Harris administration has failed to do. Three years and there are around 7 stations, comprising a few dozen charging ports. Hilariously, Biden’s DEI orders have caused massive problems, and Trump will dump those.
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Why? The Democrats would just claim that he simply continued a program from the Brandon years!
If investors see a profit-making reason to build charging stations, they’ll build them, and neither President Trump have any objection to that. I do object to the government taking our tax dollars — and dollars borrowed from China! — to build charging stations, because that’s a job for the private sector, not government.
It’s amusing how private citizens built gas stations all across America to do business and make money without government interference yet now for some commie reason (Biden/Harris/Walz) our people are incapable of building a support network for EV’s without the commies running things. And running them poorly I may add.
The feds having already stolen (or printed) a Trillion bucks of our tax money (?) “for infrastructure have nothing to show. That’s what happens when you put bureaucrats in charge of business.
DAmnit. You beat me to it.
Funny how all those gas stations, refineries, oil wells, and pipelines got built around the country with no government investment at all. Maybe that is the success model EVs should use.
Does private industry fund the trillions in construction and maintenance of all those roads, highways, interstates and bridges?
Did the industries responsible for the gas stations, refineries, oil wells and pipelines pay for the environmental degradations, the asthma, the lead poisoning, the global warming? No?
Are those rhetorical questions?
Mr Hale can answer.
EVs. Once again, Democrats focus in like a laser beam on issues that Americans rate are the most important.
Even if you believe that Climate change is the most important challenge facing America (Hint: no one does), the EV mandates and EV as part of the total transportation market solutions are a miniscule part of the “solution”. Even for the “every little bit helps” voter, this is a niche issue.